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It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.

Petrarch

When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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Animal Cat Death Poet
I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
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Death Desire Finding Myself Ready
The time will come when every change shall cease, This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace: No summer then shall glow, not winter freeze; Nothing shall be to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now shall ever last.
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Change Forever Glow Last Quick Time
While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Body Hands Life Thinking
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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Calculation Love
Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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Enemy Greatness Himself Man
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Book Leadership Learning Madness
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Foe Names Reality
For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Comfort Death Need Right
Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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Crown Grace Humanity Love One Liner
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Overcome Ruthless Strive
I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.
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Love Memories Sweet
The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Beginning Doubt End One Liner
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Desire Ourselves Rich
The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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Effort Greatness Myself
Go, grieving rimes of mine, to that hard stone Whereunder lies my darling, lies my dear, And cry to her to speak from heaven’s sphere.
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Cry Grief Heaven Lying

It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.

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